Jung, Neumann and Art

Official launch of

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

Kibbutz Shefayim, April 24-26, 2015, Conference Website Trailer

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Prof. Christian Gaillard

In this lecture, we shall try to see how, from early childhood and at different stages of his life and work, Jung’s encounters with the arts gave sustenance to the way he lived and thought about relationships to the unconscious.

To do so, we will have to overcome some oddly persistent misunderstandings concerning his Red Book and his essays on Picasso and Joyce. We shall then focus on the advances made by Neumann in the field, especially with regard to the course of our collective history and modern and contemporary creation.

Lastly, we shall reconsider the respective insights of Jung and Neumann in light of today’s research on prehistoric art, and of the recent presentation of the Red Book at the last Contemporary Art Biennale in Venice.

Christian Gaillard is a doctor of psychology (Sorbonne and EPHE), training analyst, supervisor and former president of the SFPA and of the IAAP, professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris till 2007, lecturer at several universities. He is a member of the international editorial teams of many Jungian journals. His works are translated into several languages, including his Jung, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 6th edition in 2013.

Jung Neumann Letters Conference Website

Analytical Psychology in Exile: 

The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann,

edited and with an introduction by Martin Liebscher,

will be published in the Philemon Series by Princeton University Press.

The Jung Neumann Letters Conference 

International Advisory Board

Erel Shalit • Murray Stein • Batya Brosh • John Beebe • Riccardo Bernardini 

Jerome Bernstein • Ann Casement • Angela Connolly • Tom Kirsch • Patricia Michan 

Joerg Rasche • Nancy Swift Furlotti • Luigi Zoja • Liliana Wahba